# Portrait of a Seated Woman [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MOR VAN DASHORST, Anthonis]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on panel, 100 x 80 cm ## Commentary The fact that the sitter is facing left, and has a little dog - a symbol of marital faithfulness - on her lap suggests that this portrait is one of a pair; the unidentified pendant would have depicted her husband. Dressed in the Flemish fashion of the 1560s, she occupies almost all vibrantly-lit space. Posed at an angle, her face is turned towards the viewer, at whom she gazes. This kind of bourgeois portrait, made popular by Mor, was soon adopted by Antwerp painters, and was more fully developed in the seventeenth century, especially in Holland. ## Related artworks - [Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain]() - [Anne Fernely, the Wife of Sir Thomas Gresham]() - [Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle]() - [Cardinal Granvelle's Dwarf]() - [Catherine of Austria, Wife of King John III of Portugal]() - [Emperor Maximilian II]() - [Empress Maria of Austria, Wife of Maximilian II]() - [Joanna of Austria]() - [Knight of the Spanish St James Order]() - [Lady wearing a Cross]() - [Lady with the Jewel]() - [Margaret, Duchess of Parma]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()